Here's some good news for consumers. Have you been thinking lately about upgrading your computer's memory? Now may not be a bad time. Why? Memory prices are incredibly low. Here's a chart showing exactly how low:(prices taken from www.pricewatch.com)

Some more good news? Memory manufacturers, seeing the low prices at the lower ends, are beginning to shift their product lines up toward the higher-end products–which means we'll soon have cheaper higher-end parts as well! Upgrade your memory now! Your computer will thank you for it, especially at these prices.

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i feel special(8:29am EST Tue Mar 18 2003)i got my memeory from bast buy it was pc2100 with cl2.0 and cost $30oh yeah first post – by David

Not low if you want quality memory(8:57am EST Tue Mar 18 2003)Yeah, memory prices are low but only for no-name brands or high latency timings. What about Corsair XMS 3200LL memory modules. When are those going to go down in price? – by Mick

Memory OK(9:15am EST Tue Mar 18 2003)I got two sticks of no-name brand 512mb for two systems for 53.00 each and they brought my systems to life… – by Jepko

Unbelievable(9:41am EST Tue Mar 18 2003)RAM prices dropped another 20% this month. Those corps that ordered earlier in the month and haven't gotten upgraded yet are in for a happy surprise. – by tech

Ahh im going for 512 more(11:19am EST Tue Mar 18 2003)that coupled with my 256 will make me happy.. he he – by Eric The Red

Sixth Post(11:22am EST Tue Mar 18 2003)I got sixth post – by haha

Sliding?(12:08pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)Or were they just way over priced to begin with? Hmmm – by Bring in the chinese

9th post(12:18pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)you must type really slow “haha” you were 3 minutes late…And I think it was Panasonic*to lazy to open his computer* – by David

The cycle continues(1:41pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)Economics are rough … only way to make money is either to make the chips-of-yesterday so cheaply that the 10¢ profit is enough to keep others at bay, OR, to make chips at the high-end that demand a premium.

64 megabit chips are passe, 128 megabits are commodity. 256 megabit jobs are pretty high tech, but every asian and their kid brother knew to get on that bandwagon a year ago. DDR too. Now a 512 MB module amazingly runs for $50 or so… made up of 16 chips. Do th'math: About $3.25/chip. Only way to make money at those levels is to sell 'em by the billions.

I submit the prediction I made last year as still holding: lackluster computer sales, no compelling need for bags of memory, upgraded chip plants with nothing to do, government underwriting of a cut-throat industry, a world economy on the brink of recession, and the ChinaChipster opening shop in a BIG way… spells for even cheaper memory, even cheaper parts. IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME if there is suddenly a shift to 512 megabit or 1024 megabit superchips – just to increase the 'competitive' factor. Then you'll see prices that'll amaze. $50/gigabyte? why not.

It does beg another question though: why not take the chippies at this point and fab them into 'solid state disks' with triple-redundant rechargable battery backups? At $100/gb … there has GOT to be a use for $10,000 100 gigabyte drives that have 0.001 millisecond access time.

Mebbe not on my workstation… but a database server?

[It would also spell a change in the memory industry]– by GoatGuy

cheap?(3:39pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)sure they're cheap now.I like to look at it as being right where it should have been in the first place :)

cheap is if it goes even lower! – by time to buy

w00t!(6:38pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)w3rd! cheap ram! – by Err-rep

RE: Not low if you want quality memory (8:54pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)The article just says DRAM. Is the kind of memory you specified SRAM? – by cappy

Hmm.(9:28pm EST Tue Mar 18 2003)Ok… so let me get this straight… Goat Industries is now in the R&D phase for the wafer chip (aka system on wafer, aka SOW). And also the RAM hard drive.

And the next iteration of the GoatPro 100.

Buy their stock now! – by LV

GoatGuy(2:25am EST Wed Mar 19 2003)Interesting point on the server diskless disk. But wouldn't they have to be flash for reliability? I can't see any business risking their data on a hope that the power doesn't fail ever for even a millisecond. – by YetAnotherGeekGuy